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I was in Nashville, Tennessee, recently, interviewing agents there as I perused their gorgeous property offerings. Found out a lot of people are choosing Nashville over Dallas (and Texas) as they relocate from either California, the Midwest, or the East Coast. Why? Tennessee property taxes are one-third of Texas’. And there is no state income…
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By Ryan Casey Stephens, FPQP®Special Contributor Bill Morgan, an Australian truck driver, had a fatal heart attack after nearly being crushed in a terrible accident in 1998. He was clinically dead for 14 minutes while doctors tried to revive him. Few people recover from 14 minutes with zero heartbeat without brain damage. However, lifesaving care…
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One local investor says the shortage of supply is the problem, not investors. By Mike AlbaneseSpecial Contributor Analysis from Redfin reinforces the notion that Dallas is among the hottest, if not the hottest, real estate market in the nation. The demand is so high that local governments, including the City of Dallas, are looking at…
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We were checking our bags at SFO on January 6 when I got an email from a producer at CNN, a chap named Robert Howell: Hi Candy, I am a producer with CNN’s “Quest’s World of Wonder” program. It’s a monthly travel show hosted by Richard Quest that aims to uncover the “DNA” of cities around…
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Bruce Wilke has lived in Dallas’ Hillcrest Forest neighborhood for 38 years and says he’s not opposed to new development in the LBJ/Preston Hollow area. The president of the neighborhood association said he does, however, have a problem with noise, cut-through traffic, incompatibility, and the precedent that would be set by the construction of seven-story…
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